expectant
having expectations; expecting: an excited, expectant audience.
pregnant; expecting: an expectant mother.
characterized by expectations: an expectant attitude.
in expectation; expected; prospective: an expectant fortune.
a person who expects or who waits in expectation.
Origin of expectant
1Other words from expectant
- ex·pect·ant·ly, adverb
- half-ex·pect·ant, adjective
- half-ex·pect·ant·ly, adverb
- non·ex·pect·ant, adjective
- non·ex·pect·ant·ly, adverb
- o·ver·ex·pect·ant, adjective
- o·ver·ex·pect·ant·ly, adverb
- pre·ex·pect·ant, noun
- qua·si-ex·pect·ant, adjective
- qua·si-ex·pect·ant·ly, adverb
- un·ex·pect·ant, adjective
- un·ex·pect·ant·ly, adverb
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How to use expectant in a sentence
Then, unexpectantly, the truant arrived, arrived proud and triumphant in the early morning before Hamilton was awake.
Bones | Edgar WallaceTracy, out for an afternoon stroll, had come unexpectantly upon his family arms displayed upon this shabby house-front.
The American Claimant | Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)Unexpectantly he picked up the sand-encrusted lump and brushed it off.
The Fortieth Door | Mary Hastings BradleyThe women could see his empty coat-sleeve flutter as he walked slowly and unexpectantly in that glorious evening light.
Strangers and Wayfarers | Sarah Orne Jewett
British Dictionary definitions for expectant
/ (ɪkˈspɛktənt) /
expecting, anticipating, or hopeful: an expectant glance
having expectations, esp of possession of something or prosperity
pregnant: an expectant mother
a person who expects something
obsolete a candidate for office, esp for ecclesiastical preferment
Derived forms of expectant
- expectantly, adverb
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